SEASONS
Summer Breeze Easy-living décor and the beckoning outdoors inspire sweet dreams in a country home’s master bedroom TEXT BY MEGAN SWOYER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN GRUEN STYLING BY KARIN LIDBECK
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home’s wonderful spaces, thanks to lovely appointments. French doors lead out to a terrace, a quintessential East Coast stone wall, and the pool and pool second marriage and merging house beyond. “This room represents summertime’s carefree living, with doors and winfamilies meant Karen Davis’ clients needed a place where dows open, sunshine, fresh air, and living indoors and out,” Davis says. How many people could gather can you bottle that summer breeze feel and enjoy it year-round? Mix together comfortably at once. Davis, dollops of rich blues and crisp whites that, when paired, seem to sing a suma longtime judge for this magazine’s annual mer tune evocative of the bluebird’s song. Add a jute rug and you get an instant Detroit Design Awards competition and owner of easy-living ambience. “The homeowners love navy blue, so we selected fabric, bedding, Connecticut-based Davis Raines Design, BLISSFUL artwork, and more to highlight blues and also to complement the was the interior designer for the job. BLUES “The home is in Connecticut’s Litchfield Summertime and warm cream color,” Davis says of the bedroom’s palette. The settee’s Robert Allen Ikat pattern (Sedona, embroidery in InCounty and is a weekend/country home,” the livin’ is easy in says Davis, who has been in the design this master bed- digo), which is also used as the drapery’s border, mingles perfectly room overlooking industry for nearly 30 years. “My clients pastoral scenery. with Duralee’s Sapphire silk-velvet covered pillows. Also joining in on the blues: Christopher Spitzmiller’s custom-fired ceramic lamps. live full-time in New York City and spend These days, Davis’ second-home portfolio is growing quickly, due a lot of their summer here.” The ground-level master bedroom is quite pos- in part to COVID-19. “Because of the pandemic, a lot of people are buying sibly the most relaxing and comfortable of all the second homes,” she explains. “That’s a big part of my clientele right now.”
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